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The film also includes a version of What The World Needs Now, sung by Nick Cave (who he?)

Those of you who know the confines of Ronnie Scotts will understand how I found myself virtually sitting next to Bill Cantos who was playing the piano in Herb Albert's band at his concerts back in May. In all honesty the concert was fairly pedestrian but I had a good chat with Bill who reminisced ov...

Has anyone else - particularly Swing Out Sister fans - discovered Papik?
Try this:

Thanks for everything. My hero.
RIP

Interesting snippet in the Sunday Telegraph today in an article about "Music Manager" Simon Napier-Bell (who he?) who said: One of my best paid jobs was working on the score for "What's New Pussycat" with Burt Bacharach. We were amazed we'd got him, but he didn't know anything ab...

Latest Instagram post from Burt's camp

I knew Mao Tse-Tung worked at a pub in Ealing for a while, but Dusty too!

Whoa, that's a bit harsh Blair.
No harm in going over old topics - after all we play the same records again and again....

There's a BB concert at Ronnie Scott's in February - by the Club Quintet, strings harp and vocals.

https://www.ronniescotts.co.uk/performa ... -bacharach

Somehow when I first downloaded Come To My Garden, I didn't get this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44LF0BwDsO8 ...so a very pleasant surprise to find it when playing via Spotify recently. There is some echo of Promises, Promises here...The entire album is full of fantastic sonic moments tha...

That is genuinely sad news. I grew up with Angie Baby.

Notice how she manages to squeeze in a "thank you" to the crowd at 0.17 whilst singing at top speed. Marvellous stuff.

Thanks for posting Blue. PS get McAfee or something, you keep sending me weird emails...

Unless David you are now a double agent, employed by BB's HQ to test the water....

Always good to get inside information from David.
UK and Europe I hope.

Dionne has just announced a stack of concerts across the UK for autumn 2020.